Nikitsch (; ; ) is a town in the district of

Oberpullendorf Oberpullendorf (; or ; ) is a town in Burgenland, Austria. It is the administrative center of the district of Oberpullendorf (district), Oberpullendorf. Geography Oberpullendorf is a municipality in the middle of the Burgenland. It consists o ...

in the

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

n state of

Burgenland Burgenland (; ; ; Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian: ''Burgnland''; Slovene language, Slovene: ''Gradiščanska''; ) is the easternmost and least populous Bundesland (Austria), state of Austria. It consists of two statutory city (Austria), statut ...

. About 87% of the town's inhabitants are

Burgenland Croats Burgenland Croats (, , , ) are ethnic Croats in the Austrian state of Burgenland, along with Croats in neighboring Hungary and Slovakia. Around 320,000 residents of Austria identify as of Croat heritage; 56,785 have, as sole or multiple natio ...

, the highest percentage of any town in Burgenland. In 1971, the towns of Kroatisch Geresdorf (''Gerištof, Gyirót''), Kroatisch Minihof (''Mjenovo, Malomháza''), and Nikitsch were merged to form the present town.

Population

Sport

* SC Filež, football club of

Gallery

File:Kroatisch Minihof - Volksschule.JPG, Kindergarten File:Nikitsch - Gemeindeamt (01).jpg, Nikitsch municipal office File:Pfarrkirche Nikitsch 04.jpg, Parish church

References

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Cities and towns in Oberpullendorf District {{Burgenland-geo-stub